Funding Declines in Face of Public Health Outbreaks

As reported in the Washington Post, state and local health departments responding to last week's meningitis outbreak are doing so with dramatically reduced budgets, and under threat of increasing cuts next year. Local health…

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MSDE Clarifies: Pension Payments Outside of MOE

MACo recently received a document from the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE), describing how county payments of maintenance of effort (MOE) and additional pension payments will be calculated in state…

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MACo Leaders Meet With State Budget Department

On October 25, MACo officials met with the Secretary of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), Eloise Foster, and DBM's Deputy Secretary, David Romans, to discuss budgetary initiatives for…

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